Obama's biggest problem is not Netanyahu

President Obama’s biggest problem is not Israel’s prime minister. It is his own willingness to concede every point to skilled Iranian negotiators.

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King v. Burwell: 4 words and 8 million Americans

With King v. Burwell to be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, supporters of the Affordable Care Act are rehearsing the same sketchy arguments about the language and history of the healthcare law.

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Capital taxation in the 21st century: A critique of Piketty

Thomas Piketty’s call for wealth redistribution rests on flawed justifications. His notion that the rate of return on capital exceeds economic growth fails to account for risk.

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The GOP's dilemma: Is Obamacare too big to fail?

The repeal of certain Obamacare exchange subsidies, seen as furthering a conservative goal, is likely to hurt the GOP politically.

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Robertson CPAC speech has merit

There’s a tendency to take our good fortune for granted and mistake progress as the natural order of things. The reality is that reality always intrudes. And when it does, relearnings are required.

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Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline veto

Given the benefits of increased North American production exemplified by Keystone XL, this issue will loom large in 2016’s presidential campaigns. And there lies Hillary Clinton’s dilemma.

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Leon Aron: My friend Boris

Russia’s passionate opposition leader led a very full life, politically and otherwise. And his legacy will likely be just as rich — and just as powerful — in death.

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Cyber-arms cannot be controlled by treaties

Multilateral arms control was effective at limiting the post-WWI battleship race. It was also effective in reducing superpower missile arsenals in the latter half of the Cold War. It is unlikely to work nearly so well when it comes to cyber attacks.

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Chart: Going back home

After 25 years of affordable housing policies, the U.S. homeownership rate is back to where it was in 1990.

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Watch the event — Representative John Delaney’s American Infrastructure Fund proposal: An idea whose time has come?

Representative John Delaney (D-MD) presents his American Infrastructure Fund proposal, and a panel of experts discuss.

Watch the event — Welfare reform and lessons from the United Kingdom: A conversation with UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith

AEI Top Three video: Top three facts about US energy production and geopolitical power

Shale development may be the key to the US remaining the sole superpower for the next two generations. AEI Resident Scholar Derek Scissors explains the United States' unique energy opportunities, the major challenges facing our adversaries, and the potential threats to the US energy market.

With the full impact of harsh caps on defense spending set to resume next year, Congress has an important opportunity to analyze the merits of President Obama’s proposed increase and exceed it as necessary to target additional funds towards addressing the military’s readiness crisis.

Maureen Ohlhausen, an FTC commissioner, outlines a step-by-step approach for putting the principles of regulatory humility into action and identifies high and low watermarks for the FTC’s adherence to this approach.

With King v. Burwell to be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, supporters of the Affordable Care Act are rehearsing the same sketchy arguments about the language and history of the health care law.

Using actual campus crime data from the University of Minnesota and assuming the White Claim that only 12% of sexual assaults are reported, an analysis shows that only 1 in 38 female UM students was the victim of sexual assault from 2010-2012.